Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 235 325
Rank change year-on-year -132 +90 -56
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 499 677 748
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.38% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.53% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 258 296 413
10th Percentile £36,750 £47,500 £37,861
25th Percentile £48,750 £59,224 £51,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,020 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,938 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £58,102
% change year-on-year - +7.57% -10.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,263 44,137 73,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.84% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 51,228 24,998 49,763
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 25 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -114 452 £63,076 -12.40% 515
London -41 271 £71,028 -8.35% 372
Work from Home +38 242 £63,000 -3.08% 188
UK excluding London -189 180 £62,500 - 189
North of England -8 66 £63,076 -15.90% 45
North West +10 43 £83,750 +28.85% 21
South East -157 31 £40,000 -36.00% 57
East of England -13 27 £65,000 -9.72% 17
Midlands -47 25 £52,500 -23.08% 27
South West -84 22 £68,528 +14.21% 17
West Midlands -26 20 £57,500 -14.81% 19
Yorkshire -37 20 £60,850 -22.73% 20
Scotland +13 7 £85,000 +4.62% 14
East Midlands -38 5 £37,500 -50.00% 8
North East -47 3 £63,076 -23.54% 4
Wales -54 3 £65,000 +8.59% 9
Northern Ireland -72 1 - - 7

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 16 (3.21%) Confluence
3 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (10.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.40%) Moqups
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (7.82%) Workfront
2 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.80%) Shopify
3 2 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) Eikon
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.20%) RMDS
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 81 (16.23%) SaaS
2 72 (14.43%) AWS
3 54 (10.82%) Azure
4 53 (10.62%) iPaaS
5 17 (3.41%) GCP
6 15 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (2.61%) GitHub
8 12 (2.40%) Power Platform
9 11 (2.20%) Figma
10 10 (2.00%) OneDrive
11 9 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (1.80%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.20%) Asana
14 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.00%) Miro
15 4 (0.80%) Amazon Bedrock
15 4 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
15 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 4 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 62 (12.42%) Broadband
2 30 (6.01%) HTTP
3 10 (2.00%) WAN
4 8 (1.60%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.40%) Firewall
6 6 (1.20%) LAN
7 5 (1.00%) Network Security
7 5 (1.00%) NGN
8 4 (0.80%) MPLS
9 3 (0.60%) Intranet
9 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.60%) WLAN
10 2 (0.40%) DNS
10 2 (0.40%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.40%) Multicast
10 2 (0.40%) SAN
10 2 (0.40%) Skype
10 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.40%) VoIP
10 2 (0.40%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.62%) Metadata
2 11 (2.20%) Power BI
3 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.40%) Big Data
5 2 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.40%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.20%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.20%) MySQL
6 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.20%) Redis
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (7.01%) JIRA
2 6 (1.20%) Git
3 3 (0.60%) Claude Code
3 3 (0.60%) Selenium
4 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.40%) Postman
5 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.20%) JUnit
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 162 (32.46%) Marketing
1 162 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 144 (28.86%) Finance
3 76 (15.23%) Banking
4 63 (12.63%) Retail
5 58 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (11.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (11.22%) Law
8 53 (10.62%) Presentation Skills
9 46 (9.22%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (6.41%) Public Sector
11 26 (5.21%) Legal
12 21 (4.21%) Back Office
13 18 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (3.01%) Italian Language
15 14 (2.81%) Retail Banking
16 13 (2.61%) Manufacturing
16 13 (2.61%) Telecoms
17 11 (2.20%) German Language
18 9 (1.80%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 159 (31.86%) Product Manager
2 77 (15.43%) Product Owner
3 73 (14.63%) Senior
4 69 (13.83%) Lead
5 43 (8.62%) Senior Manager
6 41 (8.22%) Software Engineer
7 40 (8.02%) Senior Product Manager
8 30 (6.01%) Development Engineer
8 30 (6.01%) Software Development Engineer
9 26 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (4.01%) Consultant
10 20 (4.01%) Developer
11 17 (3.41%) Product Lead
12 16 (3.21%) Platform Manager
13 15 (3.01%) Business Consultant
14 14 (2.81%) Business Development Consultant
14 14 (2.81%) Development Consultant
15 12 (2.40%) AWS Developer
15 12 (2.40%) Azure Developer
15 12 (2.40%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.81%) REST
2 6 (1.20%) CSS
2 6 (1.20%) HTML
2 6 (1.20%) LangChain
2 6 (1.20%) React
2 6 (1.20%) Spring
3 5 (1.00%) Google Maps API
3 5 (1.00%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (1.00%) TensorFlow
4 4 (0.80%) LangGraph
4 4 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.60%) .NET
5 3 (0.60%) Pandas
6 2 (0.40%) CrewAI
6 2 (0.40%) FHIR
6 2 (0.40%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.40%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (0.40%) Node.js
6 2 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (34.67%) Product Ownership
2 63 (12.63%) Social Media
3 54 (10.82%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (10.82%) Over-the-Top Content
4 39 (7.82%) Cloud Native
5 33 (6.61%) Public Cloud
6 23 (4.61%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.21%) AI Agents
8 15 (3.01%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.40%) Web Conferencing
11 11 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (2.00%) Educational Technology
13 9 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.60%) Driving Licence
15 7 (1.40%) Mobile App
15 7 (1.40%) Podcast
15 7 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
16 6 (1.20%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.20%) Linux
2 9 (1.80%) Windows
3 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.40%) Unix
3 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.20%) CentOS
4 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (62.32%) Roadmaps
2 218 (43.69%) Agile
3 151 (30.26%) Product Roadmap
4 130 (26.05%) Product Vision
5 114 (22.85%) AI
5 114 (22.85%) Decision-Making
6 106 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 99 (19.84%) User Stories
8 95 (19.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 94 (18.84%) Customer Experience
10 91 (18.24%) Product Backlog
11 80 (16.03%) Product Requirements
12 76 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
12 76 (15.23%) Software Engineering
13 74 (14.83%) Sprint Planning
14 72 (14.43%) User Experience
15 69 (13.83%) Workflow
16 67 (13.43%) Mentoring
16 67 (13.43%) Product Strategy
17 66 (13.23%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 42 (8.42%) Java
2 23 (4.61%) Python
3 12 (2.40%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.20%) SQL
5 6 (1.20%) Bicep
5 6 (1.20%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.80%) R
7 3 (0.60%) Bash
7 3 (0.60%) C#
7 3 (0.60%) C++
7 3 (0.60%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.60%) PHP
8 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.20%) C
9 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 82 (16.43%) Degree
2 15 (3.01%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.40%) Master's Degree
3 12 (2.40%) SC Cleared
4 9 (1.80%) HND
5 8 (1.60%) HNC
6 7 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.40%) MBA
7 5 (1.00%) CSPO
7 5 (1.00%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.00%) PMP
8 4 (0.80%) CCNA
8 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.60%) CISSP
9 3 (0.60%) PhD
10 2 (0.40%) ACCA
10 2 (0.40%) Dell Certification
10 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.81%) QA
2 21 (4.21%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.00%) GDPR
4 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.80%) PERC
5 4 (0.80%) SLA
6 3 (0.60%) PMO
7 2 (0.40%) DICOM
7 2 (0.40%) HL7
7 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (1.60%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Firmware
3 3 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.40%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (3.01%) Terraform
2 7 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.40%) WSUS
5 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.20%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.20%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 58 (11.62%) Adobe
2 49 (9.82%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.01%) Google
3 15 (3.01%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.00%) Cisco
4 10 (2.00%) Oracle
5 8 (1.60%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.40%) Facebook
7 5 (1.00%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.00%) Juniper
8 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 4 (0.80%) Toshiba
8 4 (0.80%) Workday
9 3 (0.60%) Aderant
9 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.60%) iManage
9 3 (0.60%) Reuters
9 3 (0.60%) VMware
10 2 (0.40%) CQG
10 2 (0.40%) Red Hat